Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Scribe-12/3-Jake Woolf

Here are the notes I took in class on our discussion...theyre choppy but effective.

Sherry Turkle-“Computer Holding Power”MUD and MOO-text based online virtual reality“The medium is the message”Games convey an idea of rule based, constructed worldWe feel out of control, thus we retreat to game world to feel in controlThe difference between TV and Games-TV is more passiveSocialization to computers-learn their patterns of behaviorPinball machine-learn properties of gravity?Sense of “Close to the edge, but not threatening” makes games appealingWomen Players in videogames---Gender roles through videogamesIdea of men finding strong females attractive rather than scary½ of female players WoW are played by menLara Croft Game video “I don’t know about being born, but I just happened”-from the filmDiscussed the film…felt too much like looking at a game rather than watching a filmGeneral consensus of confusion in the movie The film portrayed her in a different way than the actual game does